I use that dijan as a marinade for chicken breasts, with a little honey. Makes a great dinner with super tasty leftovers to put on a salad. Only downside is how nearly impossible it is to get the baking dish clean afterwards :(

I've never gotten a kringle (doesn't sound up my alley) but I do recall from the holiday board that the kringles ship to TJ's frozen, and you can ask an emplyee if they have any frozen ones in the back, that way you can put it in your freezer without it thawing at all.

Sometimes I write something with the best intentions, read it back, find that it could be misread as snarky, so I add a ":)", to let whoever reading it that I meant no snark. However, I have read very snarky coments with a ":)", which makes the whole thing seem very passive agressive. I know (from having relationships with signifigant others and friends) that emails and texts are not always read how they would have been said, prompting arguments and misunderstandings. So...what are your thoughts on the ":)" on Chowhound? Have you had a comment directed at you that was straight-up combative, but didn't feel like you could retaliate, since they wrote in a ":)"? Have you written something aggresive to someone but followed it up with a ":)" so you wouldn't have to face possible confrontation? No wrong answers, just curious. :)

It was more one of those things that I would think about while I was in the ice cream section of a grocery store. And also, since I was hesitant to pay $11 for a pint, I prob wouldn't shell out that plus shipping etc for something that I'm not gauranteed to like. However...if I get it from the Los Feliz location, fall in love, and then they close down...I will be doing just that! Or just learn to make my own :)

Years ago I worked at a restaurant where we had a goat cheesecake on the menu, baked in a rosemary infused phyllo, with a cherry/black pepper sorbet, and topped with fresh rosemary. Simply put, the best dessert I've ever had the pleasure of eating (multiple times). Unfortunately, it didn't sell well, and was taken off the menu after just a few short months (I'm tearing up here.) It's a taste that I have always longed to experience again... Fast forward a few years, I'm in Gelsons and I run across a pint of Jeni's ice cream-in a goat cheese and red cherry flavor! I got so excited! But then I saw the price, and really couldn't justify buying it. But I found myself often thinking about it. Finally I decided, f--- it, I deserve that $11 pint of goat cheese and red cherry ice cream dammit! But alas, it was not meant to be. I couldn't find that damn flavor anywhere! But I still look for it every single time I'm at Gelsons (or Whole Foods, or wherever). I had given it up for lost cause, until I read Manku's post. I am VERY excited to know that I can go a few blocks away and buy a scoop of ice cream that I have been longing to try for almost two years now, but I know in my heart will never compare to that long-forgotten goat cheesecake of a lifetime ago...

I always make a quick chicken soup. I buy a rotisserie chicken from the market, shred off all the chicken (and eat most of the skin; hanging head in shame). Set aside. While I'm doing that I throw a mirepoix in my soup pot with some olive oil; I cook it on low/med heat until the onions sweat. I then add two boxes of Imagine organic chicken broth, and the chicken. Sometimes some frozen peas and/or corn. If I am making it a chicken noodle soup I will boil egg noodles seperately, and then add. Season to taste with whatever herbs and spices I have on hand, or sometimes just salt and pepper. I will let it all simmer for a good 30 minutes or so before I serve. It's better the next day, and even better the day after that.

I agree that something green is missing. Maybe a big salad? I love this one in the springtime--mixed greenssliced strawberriessliced pearstossed with a poppyseed dressingtopped with crumbled gorganzola and slivered almonds

(I love a lot of fresh ground pepper with this, but that might not be everyones bag)

Also, anytime I have a gathering, I usually make bacon wrapped-blue cheese stuffed dates.

1 package bacon1 clamshell dates (about 15-20)1 tub crumbled blue

slice dates on one side to open, and peel off the hard part where the stem used to betake out seed, replace with blue cheese wrap with one of the bacon half slices, secure with toothpickbake at 350 until bacon is obviously done

I actually buy ready made pie crust with the intention of making cookies-they are so good!! I melt butter and mix the melted butter with honey, then brush on each cookie. I then generously sprinkle each cookie with cinnamon and sugar, then bake. My favorite!! They don't last long!!

I don't know-kind of a tinny taste? I ususally buy the filtered apple juice and love it, this time I asked the guy restocking what his favorite was, and he recommended the McIntosh. Both my boyfriend and myself thought the same thing.

YAY to the coffee ice cream...really good, strong coffee flavor, with teeny bits of bean. I do wish it had chocolate chips. I think this one runs a close second to B&J's Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz (my favorite).YAY to the grape leaves in a can...a bit oily, but the taste is great. I blot them before I eat them.NAY to the McIntosh Apple Juice...left a weird taste in my mouth. Returned.

Agree with you that $7 more than the cost of the pizza isn't a good value for the pizza itself...but sometimes $7 can be a great value for the convenience of someone bringing it to you when you really don't want to go get it yourself!

My thoughts are...I know what I'm getting into when I order for delivery--a delivery charge and a tip. I could drive and pick up, which I sometimes do, but I choose to pay the delivery charge when I don't feel like dressing in something other than PJ's, laying on my couch, being sober etc...a delivery charge is a small price to pay for those times you don't feel like getting in your car, parking, facing a human, etc.

I didn't realize it was the same guys as Golden State! Come to think of it, I do remember hearing they were opening a new place. Well, bravo to them. It's strangly difficult to find a great breakfast burrito, and this was by far the best I've had.

I had such a great one today from Cofax, on Fairfax near Rosewood. A coffee joint that seems to offer (other than coffee) donuts from Donut Snob, and a veggie or chorizo breakfast burrito. I had the veggie with avocado. It was AMAZING!!!!! It came with some yummy house made green and red salsas. I do wish they offered sour cream, but it wasn't even that necessary. I can't wait to go back!!!!